Re: ANNOUNCE: WWW::YouTube

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

"Eric" == Eric R Meyers <ermeyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Eric> You didn't watch? : ( Typical antagonist.

No, I happen to want to ensure that first amendment rights between
consenting adults are protected, and that people (perhaps like you) don't
get to select what I may choose or not choose to watch by *consent*.

If you had said:

I want to help develop a self-rating system so that others who
share my views can filter things within our community.

You would have gotten my support. Instead, you came off as (sorry
if this is not accurate... this is just my impression):

I want to ensure that NOBODY can see the kind of AMAZINGLY AWFUL
STUFF I just found on you-tube (OMG!).

See, if you aren't censoring me, and you can respect that I may want to
watch the stuff that you abhor, I can also respect that you want to watch
a
different set of things. After all, I consider some forms of country
music
rather obscene, as well as some bagpipe playing. But that doesn't mean I
consider those who listen to it inherently demented, and try to make sure
that *no* website carries bagpipe music.

That's where you are failing in your plea. Speak about it as "I am a
member of group X, and I want to make it easier for OTHER MEMBERS OF GROUP
X to
select what we see on YouTube". You'll get hella more support for that.

Don't make me wrong for wanting different things. Work with me on this.


Randal,

I appreciate you effort to communicate towards agreement.

One of my personal axioms, "Anything worth doing is difficult," is being
very well proved today.

I took a little break, and while I was resting this came to mind, for you.

It should reassure you that I'm just another good citizen like you. I'm
just another registered YouTube user in the overall YouTube user community;
although, I'm also registered as a developer with YouTube, which gives me
no special privileges other than I can access the read-only API called the
YouTube Developers API.

As you might have read initially, while I was working with my program, I
managed to get banned temporarily from YouTube, because of what they said
was some unknown human error on their side. I was not happy. I'll tell
you that they don't necessarily like me or trust me, because they don't
know me either, and they don't understand necessarily what I'm doing,
anymore than the people I'm meeting in this forum today understand me. I
can be very "nice," and I can be very "rude," at times.

I'm a registered user, but a relatively unknown third-party to YouTube, just
like anyone else out there in the general public not directly connected
with YouTube. I don't have the final say on any YouTube flagging. All
that I can do is express my opinion to YouTube about any candidate video.
All that I can do is make a flagging request to YouTube, and they process
and review the request accordingly.

I have no means to impose my worldview upon others.

.

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